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Political Space of Art: The Dardenne Brothers, Arundhati Roy, Ai Weiwei and Burial

Political Space of Art: The Dardenne Brothers, Arundhati Roy, Ai Weiwei and Burial

Dillet, Benoît
Puri, Tara

Hardcover

Series: Experiments/On the Political

PhilosophyGeneral ArtGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1783485671
ISBN13: 9781783485673
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: May 19 2016
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book studies the tension between arts and politics in four contemporary artists from different countries, working with different media. The film directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne film parts of their natal city to refer to specific political problems in interpersonal relations. The novelist Arundhati Roy uses her poetic language to make room for people's desires; her fiction is utterly political and her political essays make place for the role of narratives and poetic language. Ai Weiwei uses references to Chinese history to give consistency to its 'economic miracle'. Finally, Burial's electronic music is firmly rooted in a living, breathing London; built to create a sound that is entirely new, and yet hauntingly familiar.

These artists create in their own way a space for politics in their works and their oeuvre but their singularity comes together as a desire to reconstruct the political space within art from its ruins. These ruins were brought by the disenchantment of 1970s: the end of art, postmodernism, and the rise of design, marketing and communication. Each artwork bears the mark of the resistance against the depoliticisation of society and the arts, at once rejecting cynicism and idealism, referring to themes and political concepts that are larger than their own domain. This book focuses on these productive tensions.

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